Category: Historical Novels
I never knew my father and mother, having been born into a time like that of the great desolation foretold by the Scriptures. They were the days of what I have heard called the Rebellion of the Desmonds, when that great league was made against the power of Eliza, the English Q...
A few days later the Bon Aventure was lying in the river Thames, and we had no more than cast anchor when my lord put on his richest clothes, and bidding me to attend him, went...
6. CHAPTER VI.--THE TREASURE-SHIP.We left my Lady Raleigh alone in the spring of the year. It was February the sixth, and the snowdrop and crocus were up in the garden-beds of the Manor-house, and the blackbirds...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE DEAD HAND.After a little I found that I could stand upright in the passage. Stretching up my hands I could feel a solid roof above my head. The walls on either side of me were of earth, h...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE APPARITION OF THE MONK.The room in which I had studied and now slept was that to the right hand as you entered the door of the Manor-house. It was lined stoutly with oak, and it was dark because, thou...
3. CHAPTER III.--OF MY SECRET, THE LORD BOYLE, AND OTHER MATTERS.In the autumn of that year my lord came back, and in my joy at seeing him again I hardly felt that he was sad. The Lord Essex had prevailed against him with the Queen and he was...
1. CHAPTER I.--OF MYSELF, THAT GREAT CAPTAIN SIR WALTER RALEIGH, AND OF HOWI never knew my father and mother, having been born into a time like that of the great desolation foretold by the Scriptures. They were the days of what I have heard called the...
7. CHAPTER VII.--OUR LAST YEARS TOGETHER.I came out of that illness no longer the youth I had been; for God used the things that had happened me to make a change in my heart. I went very near to death, and I came back...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--AN UNRAVELLED THREAD.Once again we were in the dolorous Tower, and this time there was no returning. They arrested him at Plymouth on the moment of his landing. As though they could never slay him f...
9. ill. For it seems to me that the great days of England were not made byElizabeth Tudor or Harry, her sire, but by the great men who stood around them, and whom so often they sent to their death. Raleigh followed Essex by a space of less than a scor...